The new version 3.6 of Firefox for Windows which Mozilla released on 21 January is 14.5 percent faster than its predecessor which debuted in June 2009 but still lags behind the speed demons Safari and Chrome, shows recent tests by Computerworld, USA.
Mac version has accelerated even more and now run by about 30 percent faster than Firefox 3.5.
Firefox 3.6 is the third fastest of five browser for Windows. Firefox 3.6 JavaScript runs in three times less time than Opera 10 and over four times faster than Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). But even when the reinforcement JavaScript, Firefox 3.6 is generally two times slower than Safari and almost two times slower than Chrome 4.0. Safari also won first place, the Google browser diverging about 6.5 percent, slightly shorter than that recorded in the lead for the test of time on Mac in November 2009.
Most aggressive developers of browsers boast improved using JavaScript in the past two years. From Microsoft said that work on the acceleration of IE9. In November last year, Steven Sinofsky – president of Windows and Windows Live, said that work on the next version of Internet Explorer is set browser’s JavaScript speed to a level of competition. Although it is not yet known data from any testing IE9, neither version is available for independent testing.
In another evaluation system – Acid3, which checks how close one browser standards associated with DOM (Document Object Model), CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets) and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) – Firefox 3.6 obtained rating 92 points out of possible 100. Current versions of Safari, Chrome and Opera compiled 100 points, while IE8 is finished with 24.
